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Textile industry in the South
India is predominantly a spinning industry supplying yarn to the decentralised
sector all over the country.The South has also large cotton growing areas
with a number of ginneries. In the early fifties, the industrialists in
the South under the leadership of Cavalier G.K.Devarajulu and Padmabushan
K.Sreenivasan took the initiative to set up a laboratory at Coimbatore
to specialise in fibre technology and spinning. The late Dr. R.K. Shanmugam
Chetty, former Finance Minister was instrumental in bringing about the
organisation, thus The South India Textile Research Association (SITRA)
was born.And today, SITRA is equipped with state-of-art machinery and instruments
that could be seen only in the best laboratories of the World.
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